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Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by JamesAdir on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:22AM (#40060756)
The same contract the exists between CIA and aws for it's top secret regions. I always ponder why people protest against something that happens thousands of miles from their homes, while the same activity occurs in their own country.
Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by gorbot on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:27AM (#40060788)
Maybe they protested those things too? And maybe they have family that died or other connections to this topic? Or maybe they feel that there’s a better ROI on protesting this while the conflict is ongoing and the contract is newish versus protesting an American company doing business with America? Maybe they weren’t politically aware when those contracts were signed?

Just a few off the top

Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by cad31 on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:47AM (#40060911)
It is because the CIA is not using AI to create strike target lists.
Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by underdeserver on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:03AM (#40060999)
How are you so sure?
Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by NeverFade on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:14AM (#40061069)
You'd rather Israel doesn't have the technology to target terrorists with precision, and instead will be forced to use crude methods to carpet-bomb large areas where they hide?
Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by gorbot on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:17AM (#40061092)
Forced? Carpet bomb? With precision? And who is “they”?

because even with the tech over 10k children have been killed

Are you ok?

Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by NeverFade on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:25AM (#40061131)
We have no idea how many "children" were actually killed in Gaza.

We only have the numbers Hamas, the terror group, has published, and they've essentially admitted that at least 30% of them were flat out fabrications.

They've been caught numerous times calling their armed combatants "children".

And yes, the Palestinians attacked Israeli communities and killed 1,200 of their civilians on 10/7, the Israelis are forced to respond.

They've been far more restrained and careful to avoid civilian casualties than we would have been in their situation.

The people who defend Hamas and attack Israel may fancy themselves "moral", but they are evil: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40060532

Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by tsimionescu on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:56AM (#40061347)
Hamas did not kill 1200 civilians on October 7. There were ~1200 victims total in the attack. There were 274 soldiers, and 95 police or other security officers, and 764 civilians [0]. At least a few of the civilians were not killed by Hamas directly, but by IDF firing on Hamas terrorists holding them hostage [1].

Of course, each and every one of these victims is a tragedy. There are also an additional few hundred people taken hostage, another war crime by Hamas. I don't intend to minimize the hurt or excuse the terrorists. But just as much, every civilian being killed in Gaza is a tragedy and inexcusable. And there are many times more civilians killed in Gaza, even by the most conservative estimates, than the victims in Israel.

Also, while the 30+k victims in Gaza (which also include Hamas soldiers) are indeed coming from Hamas itself, there are no better numbers. The Israeli media and even official sources sometimes quote these numbers, and all external organizations that have looked into them consider them credible. Not to mention, these are only those confirmed dead, each of them identified specifically (the Hamas Palestinian Health Ministry is publishing a list of the exact names of every victim, and not including unidentified dead or those who are missing in the numbers).

Israel has not published any list or even estimate of the casualties, except their claims for Hamas soldiers killed.

[0] https://www.timesofisrael.com/14-kids-under-10-25-people-ove...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-inquiry-fi...

Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by myth_drannon on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @04:24PM (#40069696)
Hamas Ministry of Health officials changed their numbers and brought it down to 22k. so if 13K of these are Hamas terrorists(according to IDF), it means 9K civilians dead. Probably half from failed Hamas rocket launches that were raining down on Gaza civilians at the beginning of the war. These are very low numbers for urban combat as we see in Gaza.
Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by Thiez on Friday April 19, 2024 @04:52AM (#40084609)
Don't you think it's strange that every civilian that dies is either a woman or a child? According to Israels numbers they have never killed an innocent man, only women and children get in the way while killing the resistance fighters.
Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by myth_drannon on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:03PM (#40067420)
Because TikTok and social media brainwashed them to do it. Note these protests are for very specific topic - Israel. Plenty of countries and their militaries/agencies deal with US companies, dictatorships and authoritarian governments.
Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by r00fus on Thursday April 18, 2024 @08:11PM (#40082086)
The correct answer is "both". Because the CIA and Mossad are very much intertwined.